And, Johnny Van Zant was a founding member and lead singer of the Johnny Van Zant Band.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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And, Johnny Van Zant was a founding member and lead singer of the Johnny Van Zant Band.
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The video for "Round And Round" by Ratt features comedian Milton Berle, whose nephew Marshall Berle was Ratt's band manager at the time.
Milton Berle played two characters in the video. The staid male and female heads-of-household at a dinner party. Both characters seem perturbed by the loud volume of Ratt's playing, and quickly leave the table.
Milton Berle played two characters in the video. The staid male and female heads-of-household at a dinner party. Both characters seem perturbed by the loud volume of Ratt's playing, and quickly leave the table.
Kris Kristofferson was misdiagnosed for a decade with alzheimers when he had lyme disease.
Nigel Tufnel and Marty DiBergi invented the “rig rundown” in the feature film “This is Spinal Tap” (1984).
“Do you play all of these guitars?”
“This one still has the old tagger on it”
“Do you play all of these guitars?”
“This one still has the old tagger on it”
Olivia Newton-John's Dad, Brin, was drafted during WWII and eventually worked to interpret Nazi code, at Bletchley Park …
… Commissioned in the Royal Air Force on 30 September 1940, Newton-John (as he would come to write his name) was drafted into intelligence. He spent two years interrogating captured German pilots, using his language skills and familiarity with upper-class German society to gain their confidence and elicit information. He was involved in authenticating the identity of Rudolf Hess in May 1941. In 1942 he was seconded to the top-secret Ultra project at Bletchley Park, the intelligence unit that, among other things, broke the German Enigma codes, frequently giving the Allies advance knowledge of enemy plans. Located in Hut 3, he was engaged in interpreting and analysing the information decoded in Hut 6. He was part of the team that supplied General (Sir) Bernard (Viscount) Montgomery with crucial information about the disposition of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s forces and supply lines a week before the battle of El Alamein in October 1942. On 5 September 1945 he was promoted to war substantive flight lieutenant.
After demobilisation late in 1945, Newton-John returned to teaching as headmaster of Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. In 1954 he came to Australia …
Biography - Brinley (Brin) Newton-John - Australian Dictionary of Biography
Olivia's family's holiday cottage and surrounds, nestled way up in the Eastern Highlands of New South Wales, was a primary location for the movie, The Earthling, in '79.After demobilisation late in 1945, Newton-John returned to teaching as headmaster of Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. In 1954 he came to Australia …
Biography - Brinley (Brin) Newton-John - Australian Dictionary of Biography
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Este Haim, the 34 year old bass player for Haim, had suffered from severe Type 1 diabetes for 20 years. She has described her emotional ups and downs due to blood sugar and has passed out on at least occasion at the end of her concert.
Maybe that Big O face is really low blood sugar.
Maybe that Big O face is really low blood sugar.
Madness, known for hits such as Baggy Trousers and House of Fun in the UK was also known for videos involving costumes. These came primarily from one theatrical costumier which one day had a range of authentic police uniforms. Madness hired these then 'raided' The Clash backstage at a gig, causing that band to dispose of a significant quantity of illicit substances.
Producer Pete Waterman, producer of Locomotion by Kylie Minogue, is the patron of a steam locomotive museum, used to own the Flying Scotsman, and once owned a railway maintenance depot. Eat your heart out, Neil Young.
This is The Four Preps...
Textbook schmaltzy pop vocal group, of which there were several in the 50’s; a safe antidote to rock’n’roll.
Also, some roots of punk rock, heart wrenching soul balladry, and synth pop.
What?
Member Ed Cobb left the group in the mid-60’s, and went into production, finding a struggling ‘frat rock’ type combo making the rounds of the Sunset Strip, gave them a British Invasion/garage rock makeover, and wrote some songs for them...
At the same time, he knocked these tunes out, and the covers took them to a newer audience...
Textbook schmaltzy pop vocal group, of which there were several in the 50’s; a safe antidote to rock’n’roll.
Also, some roots of punk rock, heart wrenching soul balladry, and synth pop.
What?
Member Ed Cobb left the group in the mid-60’s, and went into production, finding a struggling ‘frat rock’ type combo making the rounds of the Sunset Strip, gave them a British Invasion/garage rock makeover, and wrote some songs for them...
At the same time, he knocked these tunes out, and the covers took them to a newer audience...
The more I study hip hop grooves, the more I think someone is recycling James Jamerson basslines.
James was THE master of syncopated 16th notes. Hip Hop lines usually have a lot of space, but the busy 16th notes are all off the grid.
Just my opinion
James was THE master of syncopated 16th notes. Hip Hop lines usually have a lot of space, but the busy 16th notes are all off the grid.
Just my opinion
Great overlooked band, they had a bit of Badfinger flavor to them. Sad that they couldn’t get off the launching pad; I saw their coming out gig in LA. Whenever I hear someone bellyaching about 90’s music or grunge, I wish they could have heard these guys...
Helme is still going with his singer-songwriter stuff with the occasional country twist.
My great aunt was a codebreaker too.
Peter Gabriel's video for "Sledgehammer" is the most played video in the history of the MTV (Music Television Network).
"Sledgehammer" is Gabriel's only US #1 U.S. Pop Chart hit. It replaced "Invisible Touch" by his former band Genesis; coincidentally, that group's only U.S. #1 Pop Chart hit. Peter Gabriel and Genesis did have other #1 hits on the U.S. Rock Chart.
Interestingly, neither Gabriel nor Genesis have ever had a #1 U.K. Pop Chart hit.
"Sledgehammer" is Gabriel's only US #1 U.S. Pop Chart hit. It replaced "Invisible Touch" by his former band Genesis; coincidentally, that group's only U.S. #1 Pop Chart hit. Peter Gabriel and Genesis did have other #1 hits on the U.S. Rock Chart.
Interestingly, neither Gabriel nor Genesis have ever had a #1 U.K. Pop Chart hit.
On March 4 & 5, 1977, April Wine was booked to play a charity concert at the famed El Mocambo Club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The co-headliner on the bill was a band called "The Cockroaches", who turned out to be The Rolling Stones who were in Toronto rehearsing for their upcoming tour. April Wine's performance was captured and released as the album Live At The El Mocambo. The band got its first chance at touring the U.S. following the El Mocambo gig, first opening for The Rolling Stones, then for various popular headliners, including Styx and Rush.
The Rolling Stones also recorded a live album at their El Mocambo stint. They kept the event secret until right before it happened: playing a small club and recording a live album; shows unannounced, yet filled with fans who deserved to be there. Stones manager Peter Rudge called Duff Roman at CHUM FM Radio Station and said he was thinking of a secret, two-night engagement at the El Mocambo filled with die hard fans who would have to be directed there via ruse so that the club not become overrun by thousands.
Dave “Blue” Bluestein was the El Mocambo’s booker. He staged a plan to book April Wine for March 4-5, 1977, as a smokescreen. “We had natural cover,” he says, “because if anything got out, we could say, ‘No, look, April Wine is playing. That’s the gig. It says so right here,’ ” he says, pointing to an imaginary calendar. “Another band was added to the April Wine shows called ‘The Cockroaches,’ which was The Stones’ alias. On the day of the first show, the band rehearsed upstairs and sound checked for the live recording.” People who passed by outside thought they were hearing a Stones cover band rehearsing their repertoire. It was preposterous to think it would be the actual band, in Toronto, playing in the middle of the day.
“The plan that we constructed,” says Duff Roman from CHUM FM Radio Station, “was to have a contest: ‘What would you do to see the Rolling Stones play live?’ This way we could select the 300 top entries and guarantee that real fans would be there for the event. The prize would be a chance to see April Wine at the El Mocambo. People wrote in and we cherry-picked the best ones. As you might expect, there were lots of nude Polaroids. When the band came in to judge the winners, they slipped the photos into their pockets and took them home.”
It was preposterous to think it would be the actual band, in Toronto, playing in the middle of the day
After the winners were selected, CHUM FM hired a dozen TTC buses and instructed fans to meet at the radio station on Yonge Street, where they’d be shipped to the show. “I got on the mic on one of the buses and said, ‘I have some bad news. There’s a change to the show tonight.’ People were disappointed and started to boo. I continued: ‘Along with April Wine, you’ll also be seeing a band called the Rolling … yes, the Rolling … the Rolling Stones!’ For a moment, people sat in utter bewilderment. Then there was a lot of cheering and shouting when they realized where they’d be going.”
Duff Roman remembers how “at about 7:30 p.m., all of the buses parked in the alley behind the El Mocambo, so no one would notice, and we could just spirit the fans in through the back door without creating a commotion or scene of any kind.” (The hulking Fedco mobile recording truck, operated by producer Eddie Kramer, was also parked there) “It was remarkable that it was all kept under wraps. No one knew about the show until after it ended, and fans started calling their friends.”
“There’s no way we could have pulled this off now,” says Roman. “But back then, there was almost a shared sense of being together, witnessing what people were witnessing — a concert by a stadium band to 300 people in a club — without having to share it, or tell others. History was happening, but that it was happening was enough. It didn’t have to be all immediately announced. It could just be lived and experienced, and, look, it’s an unbelievable thing that happened. In our city. In our time.”
Some of the Stones tracks from these shows ended up on their Love You Love double live album.
Side three
The Rolling Stones also recorded a live album at their El Mocambo stint. They kept the event secret until right before it happened: playing a small club and recording a live album; shows unannounced, yet filled with fans who deserved to be there. Stones manager Peter Rudge called Duff Roman at CHUM FM Radio Station and said he was thinking of a secret, two-night engagement at the El Mocambo filled with die hard fans who would have to be directed there via ruse so that the club not become overrun by thousands.
Dave “Blue” Bluestein was the El Mocambo’s booker. He staged a plan to book April Wine for March 4-5, 1977, as a smokescreen. “We had natural cover,” he says, “because if anything got out, we could say, ‘No, look, April Wine is playing. That’s the gig. It says so right here,’ ” he says, pointing to an imaginary calendar. “Another band was added to the April Wine shows called ‘The Cockroaches,’ which was The Stones’ alias. On the day of the first show, the band rehearsed upstairs and sound checked for the live recording.” People who passed by outside thought they were hearing a Stones cover band rehearsing their repertoire. It was preposterous to think it would be the actual band, in Toronto, playing in the middle of the day.
“The plan that we constructed,” says Duff Roman from CHUM FM Radio Station, “was to have a contest: ‘What would you do to see the Rolling Stones play live?’ This way we could select the 300 top entries and guarantee that real fans would be there for the event. The prize would be a chance to see April Wine at the El Mocambo. People wrote in and we cherry-picked the best ones. As you might expect, there were lots of nude Polaroids. When the band came in to judge the winners, they slipped the photos into their pockets and took them home.”
It was preposterous to think it would be the actual band, in Toronto, playing in the middle of the day
After the winners were selected, CHUM FM hired a dozen TTC buses and instructed fans to meet at the radio station on Yonge Street, where they’d be shipped to the show. “I got on the mic on one of the buses and said, ‘I have some bad news. There’s a change to the show tonight.’ People were disappointed and started to boo. I continued: ‘Along with April Wine, you’ll also be seeing a band called the Rolling … yes, the Rolling … the Rolling Stones!’ For a moment, people sat in utter bewilderment. Then there was a lot of cheering and shouting when they realized where they’d be going.”
Duff Roman remembers how “at about 7:30 p.m., all of the buses parked in the alley behind the El Mocambo, so no one would notice, and we could just spirit the fans in through the back door without creating a commotion or scene of any kind.” (The hulking Fedco mobile recording truck, operated by producer Eddie Kramer, was also parked there) “It was remarkable that it was all kept under wraps. No one knew about the show until after it ended, and fans started calling their friends.”
“There’s no way we could have pulled this off now,” says Roman. “But back then, there was almost a shared sense of being together, witnessing what people were witnessing — a concert by a stadium band to 300 people in a club — without having to share it, or tell others. History was happening, but that it was happening was enough. It didn’t have to be all immediately announced. It could just be lived and experienced, and, look, it’s an unbelievable thing that happened. In our city. In our time.”
Some of the Stones tracks from these shows ended up on their Love You Love double live album.
Side three
- "Mannish Boy" (Ellas McDaniel/McKinley Morganfield/Mel London) – 6:28 (4 or 5 March 1977: El Mocambo Tavern, Toronto)
- "Crackin' Up" (Ellas McDaniel) – 5:40 (4 or 5 March 1977: El Mocambo Tavern, Toronto)
- "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 4:39 (4 or 5 March 1977: El Mocambo Tavern, Toronto)
- "Around and Around" (Chuck Berry) – 4:09 (4 or 5 March 1977: El Mocambo Tavern, Toronto)
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Peaches & Herb are an American vocalist duo. Herb Fame has remained a constant as "Herb" since the duo was created in 1966 but seven different women have filled the role of "Peaches" even though only three of them recorded with the act.
1. Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (the original "Peaches" who lent her nickname to the duo) - Recorded
2. Marlene Mack
3. Linda Greene - Recorded
4. Patrice Hawthorne
5. Miriamm
6. Wanda Makle
7. Meritxhell Negre - Recorded
In between recording and touring with the act, Herb Fame has had a second career in law enforcement. In 1970, he enrolled in the police academy of Washington, D.C. and joined the city's police department. Fame returned to law enforcement and joined the U.S. Marshals Service in 1986 as a deputized court security officer at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
1. Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (the original "Peaches" who lent her nickname to the duo) - Recorded
2. Marlene Mack
3. Linda Greene - Recorded
4. Patrice Hawthorne
5. Miriamm
6. Wanda Makle
7. Meritxhell Negre - Recorded
In between recording and touring with the act, Herb Fame has had a second career in law enforcement. In 1970, he enrolled in the police academy of Washington, D.C. and joined the city's police department. Fame returned to law enforcement and joined the U.S. Marshals Service in 1986 as a deputized court security officer at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
